The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports

The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports
Author: Glenn M. Wong
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1449602037

"Provides an overview of what students should consider and expect from the varied career options available to them in the sports industry. This book answers the questions students are most likely to have, including what courses they should take, the areas of study available to them, the salary they can expect to earn after graduation, and how they can get the job of their dreams. This essential guide will help increase sutdents' likelihood of finding careers in the highly competitve sports industry."--

Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise

Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise
Author: American Kinesiology Association
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1492583790

Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise is your guide to landing your dream job in one of today’s most exciting, popular, and fastest-growing industries! Produced by the American Kinesiology Association, this hands-on guide includes detailed job descriptions, information on working conditions, salary ranges, responsibilities, key skills, and required certifications for 36 careers in sport and fitness: • Aquatic therapist • Athletic trainer (college or university sport team) • Athletic trainer (high school sport team) • Athletic trainer (as physician extender) • Athletic trainer (clinical) • Personal trainer • Group exercise instructor • Strength and conditioning coach • Fitness center owner or manager • Fitness leader in gerontology settings • Health promotion specialist • Fitness specialist • Physical education teacher • Sport instructor • Coach • Sport official • Sport psychologist • Sport administrator • Sport marketer • Media and public relations specialist • Professional scout • Sport event manager • Sport journalist • Sport facility operations manager • Clinical exercise physiologist • Certified clinical exercise specialist • Sport dietitian • Sports medicine clinic director • Physical therapist • Occupational therapist • Medical and osteopathic physicians • Chiropractor • Physician assistant • Kinesiology professor • Kinesiology researcher • Kinesiology department administrator If you are ready to pursue a job in the sport, fitness, or exercise industry, Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise is one resource you can’t be without.

Becoming a Sports Agent

Becoming a Sports Agent
Author: Gary Rivlin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501167987

A revealing guide to a career as a sports agent written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Rivlin and based on the real-life experiences of several top agents—required reading for anyone considering this profession. Becoming a Sports Agent takes you behind the scenes to find out what it’s really like, and what it really takes, to become a sports agent. Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Gary Rivlin shadows some of the best agents in sports to show how this dream job becomes reality. Behind every high-profile athlete—in football, baseball, basketball, and more—is an agent. Learn the ins and outs of scouting, contract negotiation, licensing, brand building, and more. Takeaway invaluable lessons as you follow the paths of top-tier agents, from legendary pioneers like Leigh Steinberg, who represents star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, to Don Yee, who represents Tom Brady, to Matt Sosnick, whose client list includes baseball rookie sensation Pete Alonso. Rivlin uncovers the realities of this cut-throat business, from discovering unknown talent to securing multi-million-dollar deals.

The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People, Third Edition

The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People, Third Edition
Author: Carol Eikleberry
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307768503

You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love. The revised third edition of the popular guide for offbeat individuals seeking work that suits their unique skills, talents, and passions. Updated throughout, including new inspiration and tips for keeping a creative job notebook. Descriptions of more than 270 creative jobs, from the mainstream (architect, Web designer) to the unexpected (crossword-puzzle maker, police sketch artist). Previous editions have sold more than 60,000 copies.Reviews“What a great manual for young rebels and older freethinkers who are plotting their next career move.”—Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Author: Jessica Luther
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1477322175

Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of domestic violence saves the game, how is one to cheer? Welcome to the club for sports fans who care too much. In Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back, acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson tackle the most pressing issues in sports, why they matter, and how we can do better. For the authors, “sticking to sports” is not an option—not when our taxes are paying for the stadiums, and college athletes aren’t getting paid at all. But simply quitting a favorite team won’t change corrupt and deplorable practices, and the root causes of many of these problems are endemic in our wider society. An essential read for modern fans, Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back challenges the status quo and explores how we might begin to reconcile our conscience with our fandom.

A Modern Guide to Sports Economics

A Modern Guide to Sports Economics
Author: Koning, Ruud H.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1789906539

This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can help to understand sports better and the ways that sport provides opportunities to test economic theories.

BIG Jobs Guide

BIG Jobs Guide
Author: Rachel Levy
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 161197528X

Jobs using mathematics, statistics, and operations research are projected to grow by almost 30% over the next decade. BIG Jobs Guide helps job seekers at every stage of their careers in these fields explore opportunities in business, industry, and government (BIG). Written in a conversational and practical tone, BIG Jobs Guide offers insight on topics such as: - What skills can I offer employers? - How do I write a high-impact r?esume? - Where can I find a rewarding internship? - What kinds of jobs are out there for me? The Guide also offers insights to advisors and mentors on topics such as how departments can help students get BIG jobs and how faculty members and internship mentors can build institutional relationships. Whether you're an undergraduate or graduate student or a job seeker in mathematics, statistics, or operations research, this hands-on book will help you reach your goal?landing an internship, getting your first job or transitioning to a new one.

Money Players

Money Players
Author: Marc Isenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2007-01
Genre: College athletes
ISBN: 9780966676419

"Money Players" is a comprehensive playbook to help current and prospective professional athletes maximize their financial opportunities, retire wealthy, and avoid mistakes that shorten or terminate careers. Includes information on NCAA rules, preparing for the draft, selecting the right agent, players associations, savings and investment basics, dealing with the media and fans, and preparing for post-playing opportunities. With powerful messages from pro athletes, business executives and sports media. Sporting News senior writer Mike DeCourcy says of "Money Players": "There is so much wisdom in this book it should be handed to every major college basketball or football player in exchange for signing a letter of intent. It is direct, honest and beautifully organized. There is sound advice about how to handle money, how to recognize trouble and how to avoid relying on people who place their own interests first'¿¿and it does not just come from Marc Isenberg, but from sports veterans on all sides of the table."

The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science

The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science
Author: Nicholas Tiller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0429820879

The global health and fitness industry is worth an estimated $4 trillion. We spend $90 billion each year on health club memberships and $100 billion each year on dietary supplements. In such an industrial climate, lax regulations on the products we are sold (supplements, fad-diets, training programs, gadgets, and garments) result in marketing campaigns underpinned by strong claims and weak evidence. Moreover, our critical faculties are ill-suited to a culture characterized by fake news, social media, misinformation, and bad science. We have become walking, talking prey to 21st-Century Snake Oil salesmen. In The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science, Nicholas B. Tiller confronts the claims behind the products and the evidence behind the claims. The author discusses what might be wrong with the sales pitch, the glossy magazine advert, and the celebrity endorsements that our heuristically-wired brains find so innately attractive. Tiller also explores the appeal of the one quick fix, the fallacious arguments that are a mainstay of product advertising, and the critical steps we must take in retraining our minds to navigate the pitfalls of the modern consumerist culture. This informative and accessible volume pulls no punches in scrutinizing the plausibility of, and evidence for, the most popular sports products and practices on the market. Readers are encouraged to confront their conceptualizations of the industry and, by the book’s end, they will have acquired the skills necessary to independently judge the effectiveness of sports-related products. This treatise on the commercialization of science in sport and exercise is a must-read for exercisers, athletes, students, and practitioners who hope to retain their intellectual integrity in a lucrative health and fitness industry that is spiraling out-of-control.

The Sports Book

The Sports Book
Author: Ray Stubbs
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1405367415

This is the ultimate armchair companion to practically every sport ever invented, put together with sports fantatic Ray Stubbs. Check out the rules, history, players and events for over 250 of the world�s greatest sports: from basketball to bobsleigh, karate to korfball, and synchronised swimming to ski jumping. Stay ahead in the world of sport with the latest facts and figures from leading experts and governing bodies. And pick up the techniques and tactics of the world�s best competitors. Plus get in training early with the special fact-filled feature on the Olympic Games.